Emily Fitzroy

Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860 – 3 March 1954) was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She was at one time a leading lady in London for Sir Charles Wyndham.

She made her film debut in 1915. Her debut in sound films came in Show Boat (1929). She retired in 1944. Her last film was The White Cliffs of Dover (1944).

Death Fitzroy died of stroke on March 3, 1954, aged 93 years.

Selected filmography

Sins of Men (1916) - Minor Role East Lynne (1916) - Cornelia The Return of Eve (1916) - Mrs. Tupper-Bellamy A Broadway Saint (1919) - Martha Galt The Climbers (1919) - Mrs. Hunter Deadline at Eleven (1920) - Mrs. Martha Stevens The Man Who Lost Himself (1920) - Richester's Aunt Way Down East (1920) - Maria Poole - Landlady The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920) - Mrs. Chardley The New York Idea (1920) - Grace Phillimore Out of the Chorus (1921) - Mrs. Van Beekman Straight Is the Way (1921) - Mrs. Crabtree Wife Against Wife (1921) - Mrs. Dole Jane Eyre (1921) - Grace Poole (a servant) The Splendid Lie (1922) - Mrs. Wolcott Delafield Find the Woman (1922) - Mrs. Napoli Fascination (1922) - The Marquesa de Lisa (her aunt) No Trespassing (1922) - Mrs. James Colton Fury (1923) - Matilda Brent Driven (1923) - Mrs. Tolliver The Purple Highway (1923) - Mrs. Carney Strangers of the Night (1923) - Mrs. Pengard Jealous Husbands (1923) - Amaryllis The Whispered Name (1924) - Amanda Stone Secrets (1924) - Mrs. Marlowe A Girl of the Limberlost (1924) - Kate Comstock Untamed Youth (1924) - Emily Ardis The Man Who Came Back (1924) - Aunt Isabel The Red Lily (1924) - Mama Bouchard His Hour (1924) - Princess Ardacheff Her Night of Romance (1924) - Nurse (scenes deleted) Love's Wilderness (1924) - Matilda Heath The Hooded Falcon (1924) The Spaniard (1925) - Maria The Golden Bed (1925) - Minor Role (uncredited) Learning to Love (1925) - Aunt Virginia The Lady (1925) - Madame Blanche Outwitted (1925) - Meg The Denial (1925) - Rena - Mother in Flashback Zander the Great (1925) - The Matron Are Parents People? (1925) - Margaret Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925) - Mrs. Pippy Thunder Mountain (1925) - Ma MacBirney The Winding Stair (1925) - Madame Muller Bobbed Hair (1925) - Aunt Celimena Moore Lazybones (1925) - Mrs. Fanning The Red Kimono (1925) - The Housekeeper What Happened to Jones (1926) - Mrs. Goodly The Bat (1926) - Miss Cornelia Van Gorder High Steppers (1926) - Mrs. Iffield Hard Boiled (1926) - Abigail Gregg No Babies Wanted (1926) - Landlady, 'Old Ironsides' Don Juan (1926) - The Dowager (uncredited) Marriage License? (1926) - Lady Heriot Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) - Vicomtesse de Lavedan The Cheerful Fraud (1926) - Mrs. Bytheway One Increasing Purpose (1927) - Mrs. Andiron The Sea Tiger (1927) - Mrs. Enos Orchids and Ermine (1927) - Mrs. Blom Married Alive (1927) - Mrs. Maggs Duxbury Mockery (1927) - Mrs. Gaidaroff Foreign Devils (1927) - Mrs. Conger Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927) - The Porter's Wife Once and Forever (1927) - Katherine Love (1927) - Grand Duchess Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) - Lady Beekman The Trail of '98 (1928) - Mrs. Bulkey The Case of Lena Smith (1929) - Frau Hofrat Show Boat (1929) - Parthenia Ann Hawks The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) - Marquesa The Man from Blankley's (1930) - Mrs. Tidmarsh Dumbbells in Ermine (1930) - Gossiper (uncredited) The Flirting Widow (1930) - Aunt Ida Song o' My Heart (1930) - Aunt Elizabeth She's My Weakness (1930) - Mrs. Oberlander New Moon (1930) - Countess Anastasia Strogoff Unfaithful (1931) - Auntie Janie It's a Wise Child (1931) - Jane Appleby Misbehaving Ladies (1931) - Meta Oliver Detective Lloyd (1932, Serial) - The Manor Ghost Aren't We All? (1932) - Angela Lucky Ladies (1932) - Cleo Honeycutt High Society (1932) - Mrs. Strangeways Timbuctoo (1933) - Aunt Augusta Don Quixote (1933) - Sancho Panza's wife Her Imaginary Lover (1933) - Aunt Lydia Raleigh Dick Turpin (1934) - Minor Role The Man with Two Faces (1934) - Hattie Two Heads on a Pillow (1934) - Mrs. Van Suydam The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) - Mrs. Victoria Griswold China Seas (1935) - Mrs. Higgins She Couldn't Take It (1935) - Party Guest (uncredited) Border Flight (1936) - Old Maid (uncredited) The Bold Caballero (1936) - Lady Isabella's Chaperone Nothing Sacred (1937) - Guest at Banquet The Frontiersmen (1938) - School Teacher aka Snooksie Vigil in the Night (1940) - Sister Gilson The Flame of New Orleans (1941) - Cousin Two-Faced Woman (1941) - Rhumba Dancer Forever and a Day (1943) - Ms. Fulcher The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) - Spinster in Boardinghouse